Bull coming to town

David Bull, the James Beard Foundation-nominee for best chef in the Southwest, is coming to San Antonio.

Bull, who has been executive chef at the Driskill Hotel in Austin for the past eight years, starts Thursday at the St. Anthony Hotel, 300 E. Travis St. He will be chef-partner for Jeff Trigger’s La Corsha Hospitality Group, which also owns the Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas.

That means two of this year’s five nominees for best chef in the Southwest will be cooking in town. The other is Andrew Weissman of Le Reve, 152 E. Pecan St.

But even though Bull is starting Thursday, don’t expect an overnight transformation of the hotel’s dining. He plans to work on banquets first before turning his attention to the Madrid Room, he said in a telephone conversation Wednesday.

But his goal is “to make the St. Anthony the crown jewel” of San Antonio, he said.